A53694:53
Exercitations concerning the name, original, nature, use, and continuance of a day of sacred…
Exercitations concerning the name, original, nature, use, and continuance of a day of sacred rest wherein the original of the Sabbath from the foundation of the world, the morality of the Fourth commandment with the change of the Seventh day are enquired into : together with an assertion of the divine institution of the Lord's Day, and practical directions for its due observation / by John Owen.
London: printed by R.W. for Nath. Ponder, 1671
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 11 And this various Use of the Word was taken up among the Grecians and Latins also. As they borrowed the Word from the Jews, so they did its Use. The Greek [Greek or Hebrew] is merely the Hebrew [Greek or Hebrew], or perhaps formed by the Addition of their usual Termination from [Greek or Hebrew], whence also our Apostle frames his [Greek or Hebrew]. The Latin Sabbatum is the same. And they use this Word, though rarely, to express the last day of the Week. So Suetonius in Tiber. Diogenes Grammaticus Sabbatis disputare Rhodi solitus. And the LXX. always so express the seventh Day Sabbath; and frequently they use it for a Week also. And so in the New Testament, [Greek or Hebrew], Luke 18. 12. I fast twice on the Sabbath; that is, two days in the Week. And [Greek or Hebrew], Acts 13. 14. the Day of the Sabbath, is that day of the Week which was set apart for a Sabbatical Rest. Hence [Greek or Hebrew], One day of the Sabbaths, which frequently occurs is the same ⟨p. 30⟩with [Greek or Hebrew], the first day of the Week; [Greek or Hebrew] or [Greek or Hebrew] being often put for [Greek or Hebrew]; the Numeral for the Cardinal.
§. 11 And this various Use of the Word was taken up among the Grecians and Latines also. As they borrowed the Word from the Jews, so they did its Use. The Greek 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is meerly the Hebrew 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, or perhaps formed by the Addition of their usual Termination from 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, whence also our Apostle frames his 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. The Latine Sabbatum is the same. And they use this Word, though rarely, to express the last day of the Week. So Suetonius in Tiber. Diogenes Grammaticus Sabbatis disputare Rhodi solitus. And the LXX. alwayes so express the seventh Day Sabbath; and frequently they use it for a Week also. And so in the New Testament, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉,